Christopher Rankin

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“In the Moonlight” by Christopher Rankin

Submitted to Contest #272

Sitting on the bus Jill scrolled through her playlist with her head against the window of the bus. It was a cloudy night, but she could still occasionally see the moon appear from behind the clouds. The autumn night displayed wilted leaves on the branches of trees passing by in the moonlight. She was on her way from Rochester to New Orleans, a place she thought that she could get lost and start a new life. Half-way there she thought as she saw the sign stating “Welcome to Tennessee” this was the furthest south she had ever been. A man approa...

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“In the Pocket” by Christopher Rankin

Submitted to Contest #271

Three knocks on the front door. Bill always knocked three times on the door of the of the name he had to cross off. He had been doing this for 20 years and it was something that he was good at. 1945 was the first time he had killed a man, not in the war but on the streets of Chicago. He was so close to getting out of this life that he had built, he only needed to finish this last job. He had enough money put away and he was going to use it to start a new life in Florida, a new life filled with sunshine.  His trusted Smith & Wes...

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Author bio

Christopher Rankin is a writer from Charlotte, NC